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The Meandering Matriarch

~ AKA: Suellen Carey-Clarke

The Meandering Matriarch

Category Archives: Language

Pet Peeves — Linguistically Speaking

May 7, 2016

Six years ago I wrote a short piece here about how certain people, and cultural  groups, can be characterised by …

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And the Word Is…

January 25, 2015

Before I get into the discussion of certain words, I need to offer a bit of context.  Why do I …

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Navajo Star Wars and Wind Talkers

May 5, 2013

What a great idea! — the Navajo Nation is beginning work on a project to dub the 1977 movie, Star …

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Goodbye Rotten Penmanship!

April 24, 2013

My penmanship is so bad that if I’d been born before typewriters I could never have become a writer.  I’ve …

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Colour Me EmPurpled

December 2, 2012

Ah, c’mon.  This is getting sillier by the day.  I thought Dictionary.com had outdone themselves with their selection of amygdaliform  as …

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Shaped Like an Almond

November 27, 2012

Dictionary.com Word of the Day Sunday November 25, 2012 amygdaliform \uh-MIG-duh-luh-fawrm, adjective: Shaped like an almond. Amygdaliform derives from the …

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There’s a Bathroom on the Right

September 6, 2012

Ah, yes.  That great line from the Creedence Clearwater Revival song, Bad Moon Rising.  Or not.  The line is actually …

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Plumbing: The Metaphor

May 23, 2011

Have you any idea how many plumbing metaphors there are?  Neither do I.  But I was amazed to discover that …

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Merry Christmas and Other Oxymorons

December 12, 2010

oxymoron  – noun:  a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect; a contradiction of terms. …

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Dictionary (n): Book explaining the words of a language

November 28, 2010

Has my dictionary become obsolete, or have I?  (“Well, yes,” I hear you murmur.)  Okay, so my Oxford English Dictionary …

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